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I like how it says “Caution: No Footboard” in English when you’re roaming around deep in Quebec.
When the railroad was being built,Cartier tried to recruit a lot of non French speaking railroaders, especially CN people from Ontario. My dad was recruited by Cartier from CN and was told not to worry about his lack of french. My dad said that’s why the sidings were named in alphabetical from the south to north to aid Ontario railroaders till they got better at French.
Gotta love the US Alco built tri mount trucks compared to the MLW style under the CN and CP MlW’s!
Pretty amazing the cartier m636′s lasted until 2019-2020… with any luck one will be back in Scranton.
This unit was apparently kept as a backup unit on Cartier after all the other C630′s had been retired, and survived late enough to be repatriated and end up in a museum in Arkansas restored as UP 2907.
Thank you for your scholarly input, MrDan. Of all places to end up. Perhaps it was on the AM as parts too for a spell?
According to some digging, locomotive dealer Ed Bowers scooped it up in the early 2000′s, probably as a preservation effort. He also had looked at a lot of those ex-CN CBCNS units in NS, but apparently the wheels on most of them were to far gone to move.
https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Cartier_Railway_30-39
Also the Cartier M636′s survived, while a few were preserved and some scrapped after WNYP got rid of ‘em all, D-L got a handful and they are in various forms of being returned to service..
The last stand of these bigguns in daily revenue freight service is in Scranton, and I encourage everyone to go while you still can.
NYLE has used theirs occasionally, but it may still need new traction motors as one needed to be repaired.